Midi Libre Event: Come and meet Kad Merad and Claude Lelouch at the newspaper’s headquarters on October 18

Kad Merad et Claude Lelouch, en septembre 2024. MAXPPP

The filmmaker and the actor have accepted our invitation. They will participate in a special moment of discussion with Midi Libre readers, who are also invited to attend the preview of the highly anticipated film that brings them together: “Finally”. Here's how to win your tickets.

A legend of the 7th Art and one of the most popular actors in France. Midi Libre is offering an exceptional meeting on Friday, October 18: Claude Lelouch and Kad Merad will be in our walls, that day, in the morning, at the Mas de Grille, the newspaper's headquarters in Saint-Jean-de-Védas, for a moment of privileged exchanges with our readers.

The filmmaker and the actor have accepted our invitation and will come to discuss the project that brought them together, “Finally”, the new film by Claude Lelouch, which will be released in theaters on November 13, a lucky date for the boss of Films 13…

"Everything that happens to us is for our own good"

The story: "In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to give up everything, will realize that ultimately: everything that happens to us, it’is for our good."

The new film by Claude Lelouch. Films 13

A form of musical road movie carried by a dream cast, Kad Merad, therefore, the title role, but also Elsa Zylberstein, Michel Boujenah, Sandrine Bonnaire, or François Morel, to name but a few, but also Ibrahim Maalouf's music and imbued with the filmmaker's ever-sharp view of our world.

“We behave like spoiled children”

“We behave like spoiled children, we live in an ocean of uncertainties, of fears when we have never had so much at our disposal”, the director stressed, during a major interview given to Mid Libre in November 2022.

Claude Lelouch. MAXPPP – Pierre Teyssot

The author ofA man and a woman, Itinerary of a spoiled child, The Beautiful Story and Attention bandits has chosen, this time, to set up his camera in Hérault (Béziers Sérignan, Capestang, Vendres), but also in Paris, at Mont Saint-Michel, in Morvan and in Avignon.

Forty people will be able to meet this October 18th the multi-award-winning director (Palme d'Or, two Oscars, a Golden Globe, etc.) and this talented actor, a favorite of the French, at Midi Libre. Twenty places will be reserved for the “Midi Libre Subscribers Club”, by drawing lots. Ten more will be offered to students.

How to win your tickets for the meeting and the preview

The last ten tickets are up for grabs here.

The five winners will each win two tickets to attend the preview of the film, Thursday, October 17, at 8:15 p.m., at the Pathé Odysseum in Montpellier, then the meeting with Claude Lelouch and Kad Merad, on Friday, October 18 at 10 a.m., at the Midi Libre headquarters. It will be hosted by the newspaper's editorial director, Olivier Biscaye.

If you are interested and available for these two events, you can participate in the competition by explaining to us in a few words (1,000 characters maximum) why you would like to be invited. You can write to mcudel@midilibre.com until October 8th.

Attention: only the winners will receive a message from the newspaper by return email, by October 10th at 4pm. Good luck to all!